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A Pending Recession? Five Years Into Recovery, Timing the Business Cycle

Sam Chandan speaks with CNBC — June 2014 marks the five-year anniversary of the recession's technical end date. For most Americans, it may not feel like the recession has been over for so much longer than it lasted. Lagging job market trends notwithstanding, no expansion in US history has lasted more than 10 years. With that baseline, the US economy should encounter a period of significant economic stress within today's new investment time horizon.